Chapter Overview


Part One


Chapter Content

1. Family background; Scout, Jem and Dill; Boo Radley
2. Scout starts school; Miss Caroline; Walter Cunningham; Burris Ewell
3. Scout and Walter fight; Walter to lunch at the Finch house; Calpurnia
4. Gifts in the knot in the tree; Dill, Boo Radley games
5. Miss Maudie Atkinson; more Boo Radley games
6. More Boo Radley; Jem loses his pants; Mr. Radley shoots at a “Negro” in his collard patch.
7. More gifts in the tree – soap figures; School again – 2nd Grade; knot hole is filled.
8. Snow; snowman; fire at Miss Maudie’s; Boo Radley’s blanket
9. Scout fights with Cecil Jacobs and her cousin Francis
10. Atticus shoots the mad dog in the street.
11. Miss Dubose; Jem destroys her camellias; Jem reads to her.

Part Two


12. Jem becomes moody and silent; Calpurnia takes children to First Purchase Church; Rev. Sykes; Zeebo; Lulu; the Robinson family
13. Aunt Alexandra comes to stay
14. Maycomb County turns against the Finches; Dill returns
15. Heck Tate speaks to Atticus; Atticus confronts the lynch mob at the jail.
16. Miss Stephanie Crawford; Mr. Dolphus Raymond; Scout and Jem go to the court house.
17. The trial: Heck Tate’s testimony; Bob Ewell’s testimony.
18. The trial: Mayella Ewell’s testimony
19. The trial: Tom Robinson’s testimony
20. The trial: Closing remarks by Atticus
21. The trial: the verdict. “Stand up. Your father is passin’”
22. Jem’s reaction to the trial.
23. Bob Ewell spits at Atticus
24. The Missionary Circle Tea; Maycomb “Ladies”; news of Tom’s death
25. Atticus tells Helen Robinson; Maycomb reacts to Tom’s death; Scout reflects deeply on all the events
26. Scout at school
27. Return to some kind of normality; Bob Ewell; Halloween approaches
28. Halloween pageant; children attacked on their way home; Bob Ewell found dead
29. Heck Tate investigates. Boo appears
30. Heck Tate; Dr. Reynolds; Atticus
31. Boo Radley; Scout’s reflection